Product Description: Among the 260 pubs collected here, there are unspoilt country locals, Victorian drinking palaces and mighty roadhouses. The book has features describing how the pub developed, whatâs distinctive about pubs in different parts of the country, how people a century ago could expect to be served drinks at their table, and how they used the pub for take-out sales in the pre-supermarket era...read more

Product Description: One of Englandâs greatest Victorian architectural practices was based, not in London, but in the relatively quiet town of Lancaster. For just over a century the leading practice in the area was that of Sharpe, Paley and Austin. It was founded, just at the start of the Victorian Gothic Revival, by the remarkable, multi-talented Edmund Sharpe Â architect, engineer, businessman, politician and winner of the Royal Institute of British Architectâs Royal Gold Medal for his work in architectural history...read more

9781848020498 | English Heritage, August 30, 2012, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: One of Englandâs greatest Victorian architectural practices was based, not in London, but in the relatively quiet town of Lancaster.

Product Description: This is a new edition of English Heritage's widely acclaimed study of that great British institution, the public house. First published in 2004, this was described as the best history of the pub available. Now updated and corrected, it offers a scholarly, yet accessible history of the origins of the pub and its development since medieval times...read more

9781850749066 | English Heritage, June 30, 2004, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This is a new edition of English Heritage's widely acclaimed study of that great British institution, the public house.

Product Description: John Ruskin exerted a powerful and pervading influence on architects and architecture in the nineteenth century and his legacy can still be felt today. His highly individual and idiosyncratic prose encouraged the lay person to look and think about architecture and he covered strands as diverse as the choice of style, the use of polychromy, the relations between the workman and his work, and even between politics and the arts...read more

9780954361518 | Spire Books Ltd, December 31, 2003, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: John Ruskin exerted a powerful and pervading influence on architects and architecture in the nineteenth century and his legacy can still be felt today.